# Dynatrace alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026 IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 983 of the 1,260 answers in the 5 categories where Dynatrace holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/dynatrace/alternatives/ ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - New Relic: 117 - UptimeRobot: 75 - Grafana: 61 - Datadog: 51 - Better Stack: 41 - Site24x7: 37 ## AIOps platforms **Small business**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #10 of 16 at 3%). - Atera: first choice in 20 of those 76 - Datadog: first choice in 9 of those 76 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 76 - Site24x7: first choice in 7 of those 76 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 76 - PagerDuty: first choice in 4 of those 76 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 4 of those 76 - Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 76 **Mid-market**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #3 of 10 at 13%). - New Relic: first choice in 7 of those 62 - Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 62 - BigPanda: first choice in 4 of those 62 - Atera: first choice in 3 of those 62 - Amazon Aurora: first choice in 2 of those 62 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 62 - Keep: first choice in 2 of those 62 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 2 of those 62 **Enterprise**: 47 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #1 of 11 at 39%). - BigPanda: first choice in 7 of those 47 - Coralogix: first choice in 4 of those 47 - OpenObserve: first choice in 4 of those 47 - Datadog Event Management: first choice in 1 of those 47 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 47 - ServiceNow ITOM AIOps: first choice in 1 of those 47 ## Application performance monitoring **Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #10 of 10 at 0%). - New Relic: first choice in 39 of those 83 - Sentry: first choice in 15 of those 83 - Datadog APM: first choice in 6 of those 83 - SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 83 - Elastic APM: first choice in 3 of those 83 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 83 - OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 83 - Scout APM: first choice in 3 of those 83 **Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #9 of 12 at 2%). - New Relic: first choice in 23 of those 73 - Datadog APM: first choice in 8 of those 73 - SigNoz: first choice in 7 of those 73 - Site24x7: first choice in 3 of those 73 - Elastic APM: first choice in 2 of those 73 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 73 - IBM Instana: first choice in 2 of those 73 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 73 **Enterprise**: 39 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #1 of 9 at 47%). - CubeAPM: first choice in 4 of those 39 - AppDynamics: first choice in 3 of those 39 - New Relic: first choice in 3 of those 39 - Datadog APM: first choice in 1 of those 39 - Dynatrace Platform Subscription: first choice in 1 of those 39 - Logit.io: first choice in 1 of those 39 - Middleware.io: first choice in 1 of those 39 - Scout APM: first choice in 1 of those 39 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #12 of 12 at 0%). - Grafana: first choice in 33 of those 82 - New Relic: first choice in 13 of those 82 - SigNoz: first choice in 10 of those 82 - Better Stack: first choice in 8 of those 82 - Datadog: first choice in 7 of those 82 - Uptrace: first choice in 3 of those 82 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 82 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 82 **Mid-market**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #6 of 12 at 2%). - Grafana: first choice in 19 of those 65 - New Relic: first choice in 12 of those 65 - Datadog: first choice in 7 of those 65 - SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 65 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 65 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 65 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 65 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 65 **Enterprise**: 43 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #2 of 10 at 22%). - groundcover: first choice in 5 of those 43 - Datadog: first choice in 4 of those 43 - New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 43 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 43 - Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 43 - OpenObserve: first choice in 1 of those 43 - SigNoz: first choice in 1 of those 43 - Splunk: first choice in 1 of those 43 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #14 of 14 at 0%). - Site24x7: first choice in 12 of those 82 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 11 of those 82 - Zabbix: first choice in 9 of those 82 - Grafana: first choice in 8 of those 82 - Netdata: first choice in 8 of those 82 - UptimeRobot: first choice in 7 of those 82 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 82 - Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 82 **Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #11 of 13 at 0%). - Zabbix: first choice in 11 of those 73 - Datadog: first choice in 10 of those 73 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 73 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 4 of those 73 - Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 73 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 2 of those 73 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 73 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 73 **Enterprise**: 43 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #2 of 14 at 24%). - Netdata: first choice in 5 of those 43 - Datadog: first choice in 4 of those 43 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 43 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 43 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 43 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 43 - Grafana stack with Loki/Tempo: first choice in 1 of those 43 - Logz.io: first choice in 1 of those 43 ## Website and synthetic monitoring **Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #10 of 11 at 0%). - UptimeRobot: first choice in 44 of those 83 - Better Stack: first choice in 10 of those 83 - StatusCake: first choice in 8 of those 83 - Site24x7: first choice in 7 of those 83 - Checkly: first choice in 3 of those 83 - Freshping: first choice in 3 of those 83 - New Relic Synthetics: first choice in 2 of those 83 - Honeybadger: first choice in 1 of those 83 **Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #12 of 12 at 0%). - UptimeRobot: first choice in 16 of those 76 - Better Stack: first choice in 13 of those 76 - Hyperping: first choice in 4 of those 76 - Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 76 - Uptime.com: first choice in 4 of those 76 - Checkly: first choice in 3 of those 76 - Pingdom: first choice in 3 of those 76 - Uptime Kuma: first choice in 3 of those 76 **Enterprise**: 56 of 84 answers did not name Dynatrace (Dynatrace is #1 of 12 at 24%). - Uptime.com: first choice in 9 of those 56 - Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: first choice in 8 of those 56 - UptimeRobot: first choice in 8 of those 56 - Hyperping: first choice in 4 of those 56 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 56 - Catchpoint: first choice in 1 of those 56 - New Relic Synthetics: first choice in 1 of those 56 - OneUptime: first choice in 1 of those 56 Published under CC BY 4.0. 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